The problem is with how the bots are being abused not the actual bots themselves. If they are primarly used by new Steemians writing good content and trying to gain some more visibility then I think thats fine. Whats not fine is people posting pictures of flowers and paying 100s of dollars to get to trending! Just inflates the percieved rewards... new people look and think hey I could do that and make $500 too - but they dont realise most of that was paid for and not profit.

I try not to use bots but it is hard and sometimes I am forced to so I get noticed...